A BANK was blasted last night after giving a 100 per cent mortgage to an al-Qaeda terrorist who smuggled himself into the UK.
Albanian Krenar Lusha, 30, landed the NatWest loan after it failed to complete full checks on his UK status, a court heard.
He used the £93,000 terraced house in Derby to keep bomb-making equipment and set up an al-Qaeda base.
Lusha got the loan with no deposit at the height of the credit crunch last year.
He had opened a NatWest account after sneaking into the UK in a lorry in 2000.
Despite failing to win asylum, he got a driving licence and an engineering job - and had declined another mortgage offer.
One mortgage adviser told Preston Crown Court: "He was just a pleasant-natured person." But Lusha was yesterday jailed for seven years for possessing the bomb-making gear and manuals following a three-week trial. He boasted on dating websites of being a "terrorist" who "loved" to see Jews killed.
Footage on his PC showed beheadings. Mr Justice Butterfield said Lusha had a side that "revelled in violence".
Tory MP David Davies said last night: "Can we assume hundreds of illegal immigrants have been given mortgages?" NatWest said it had "robust mortgage account opening procedures".Read
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